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data.checker: Data Checker for Validating Data Frames Against Defined Schema

Validates data frames against a defined schema. Produces a report of the checks performed and any issues found, with index and entry value where appropriate. Backend checks are performed using pointblank Richard Iannone et al (2025) <doi:10.32614/CRAN.package.pointblank>.

Version: 2.0.0
Depends: R (≥ 4.1.0)
Imports: dplyr, glue, jsonlite, knitr, lubridate, magrittr, tools, yaml, tomledit, utils, cli, rlang, pointblank, tidyselect, tidyr, stringr, hms
Suggests: rmarkdown, testthat (≥ 3.0.0)
Published: 2026-06-08
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.data.checker (may not be active yet)
Author: Crown Copyright [cph], Analysis Standards and Pipelines Team (ONS) [cre, aut]
Maintainer: Analysis Standards and Pipelines Team (ONS) <ASAP at ons.gov.uk>
License: MIT + file LICENSE
URL: https://onsdigital.github.io/data.checker/
NeedsCompilation: no
Materials: README, NEWS
CRAN checks: data.checker results

Documentation:

Reference manual: data.checker.html , data.checker.pdf
Vignettes: export_options (source, R code)
Data checker (source, R code)

Downloads:

Package source: data.checker_2.0.0.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: not available, r-release: data.checker_2.0.0.zip, r-oldrel: not available
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): data.checker_2.0.0.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): data.checker_2.0.0.tgz, r-release (x86_64): data.checker_2.0.0.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): data.checker_2.0.0.tgz

Linking:

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These binaries (installable software) and packages are in development.
They may not be fully stable and should be used with caution. We make no claims about them.
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